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Is there a possibility of Chinese Civil War part III?

So is India this world's China, what with the whole facial recognition thing?

US invades in 1850s, Cuba secedes with a victorious Confederacy, actual Cubans rebel against Anglo rule in the 1880s and establish a native republic in the highlands where the Confederate army can't reach. Boom. Landlocked.

Personally I prefer my native Americans to be igneous

A while back I remember someone who I think got banned on this forum practically frothing at the mouth insisting that sojourn mean a brief stay.

Have a much more aggressive and less competent President push Maryland and Kentucky into the arms of the CSA, and have a much more competent anti-war movement. John C Fremont might be a good fit for the job.

Has anyone ever told you that you're insufferably arrogant and dismissive of other people?

On the reddit forum r/Philadelphia, a user named u/fiftythreestudio posted this map of what the original plan wasto turn SEPTA's Regional Rail lines into mass transit within Philadelphia, while retaining the commuter rail outside the city. The idea would have required an additional connection so...

You have a very bad habit of sidestepping people's arguments and cherrypicking the parts you actually address.

I'm actually pretty sure that the collective lost productivity caused by traffic jams far outweighs the collective lost productivity to delays in mass transit. If you get stuck in a traffic jam you can't simply supplement with other forms the way yu can with mass transit - not when doing so...

Remember the days when Center City wasn't this Forbidden City-style monstrosity and South treet wasn't utterly obliterated to make room for the smoggy gargantuan hellscape of the Crosstown Expressway? Remember the days before Girard Avenue was needlessly turned into yet another clone of the...

That must explain why Congress is always authorizing more money for highways outside of gas taxes and registration because the same people who insist suburbs are a must also go into a frothy rage whenever raising gas taxes is broached. Has anyone told you you come off as extremely extremely...

Suburbanization has a definite history of racism in this country, as does antipathy towards major cities. To this day when somebody from Pennsylvania says they hate Philadelphia, my usual assumption is that the fact that the city they "hate" is also PA's largest concentration of black people...

I'd like a source for this graph for one thing. For another, how come it's okay to spend tens of billions every year on highway maintenance but somehow rail is always a boondoggle? Areas like the Northeast corridor and the Texas triangle are perfect for high speed rail - far enough away that...

subway surface lines in Philadelphia have ridership equivalent to much longer bus routes - with the added benefit of dedicated right-of-way underground, which otherwise would have to be ventilated at millions of dollars in extra cost. For the record, the only reason that ridership is down is...

Personally I wish Philly had kept at least some of its trolley system outside of the subway-surface lines and the 15 on Girard. The 56 and the 60 make far more sense as trolleys with dedicated right-of-way than as busses that have to share the road. Maybe light rail or heavy rail using the City...

Any chance he could fight of Casca and cause there rest to lose their nerve?

George McGovern would be a terrible President whose relationship with Congress - controlled by his own party - would make Jimmy Carter's look like a sewing circle. He was a self-righteous, self-important fool who somehow managed to piss off the labor unions in the worst possible time to do so...

Popular Front for the Liberation of Jupiter. We're the Jupiter Popular Liberation Front!

This has the added benefit of harnessing the very racial animus which the National Unionists exploit - claim that unless the Freedmen can be settled on land belonging to their former owners or to nobody at all, they'll almost certainly head north and compete with white laborers in the Northwest.